There is a spec war going on among companies to claim the crown of thinnest foldable. Phone manufacturers are playing with fractions of millimeters to boast about their phone’s thickness.

Honor is winning this race on a theoretical basis with its 8.8mm (when folded) thick Magic V5 foldable. I’m saying theoretical because there is a huge, camera-bump-sized caveat to this.

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The thin frame of the device looks and feels great as long as you hold it in a way that your fingers are wrapped around the bottom half of the phone. If your fingers are brushing against the massive bump, you might feel uncomfortable holding the phone. This rigamrole took me a few days to adjust to.

Image Credits: Ivan Mehta

When you lay the phone on the table, it creates a slant (like in the

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